Fri, 27 Jun 2008

Unions are big businesses which seek to gain a monopoly in sales over
a commodity (labor). As such, I completely fail to see why they should have
even a gnat's breadth of help from the government in the marketplace. And yet they do.
For example, in New York State, some groups are subject to hiring standards.
These include paying "the prevailing wage", which always means the union
wage. Of course, if you have to pay union wages, you may as well hire a
union member, because, well, that's a nice business you've got, and you
wouldn't want any accidents to happen to it, would you?